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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

Score: 8.0

Genre: Documentary, History

Year: 2022-03-16

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

Actors:

Sandra Nkake

Sandra Nkake

Melvin Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles

Max Van Peebles

Max Van Peebles

Marguerite Van Peebles

Marguerite Van Peebles

Mike Sargent

Mike Sargent

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